Island Alive
Directed by Stephen Frears
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(DVD, Criterion Collection)
Terence Stamp is an ex London gangster living in seclusion in Spain after turning informant a decade earlier. He is kidnapped by four youths and turned over to hit man John Hurt and his accomplice Tim Roth, who intend to take him to Paris supposedly to be executed. Their road trip through Spain turns out to be filled with twists and turns. In a detour to Madrid, they stumble upon another gangster squatting in a luxury condo with his young girlfriend. They are forced to murder him and take the girl along for the rest of the trip. Young Roth, an inexperienced hothead, falls for her and, it turns out, so does the older Hurt. It doesn't take long for Stamp to recognize it and turn his two captives against each other. It all comes to a head on a hilltop near the French border. Cool, hip road movie with Stamp offering up philosophical musings on the meaning of life, Hurt the unflappable hit man trying to keep it all together, Roth barely contained as the youth on his first job and Laura Del Sol as the desperate girl along for the ride.
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